1 . MISSING PIECES

I was in the shower so I could not tell my nose was bleeding
Dripped down my body to the floor right below my feet and
I looked in the mirror at my face, I thought I had a disease

And there's a woman with her fingers in my ice box
She flipped around and cold out asked me if I'm okay
She put the ice upon my tongue and then it melted away

Alright, oak floor, soft pine bedroom door
Speak easy, make her mine if she's bored
And there’s a dry pine ceiling that is out of my reach

I woke up and my hands were gone
I looked down and my legs were long gone
I fell forward with my shoulder, but there's nobody there

I thought she left a note, just a tag on the pillow there
And then I noticed there’s a rag next to my ear
The clock was ringing but it wasn’t nothing that I could hear

Sometimes someone controls everything about you
And when they tell you that they just can't live without you
They ain't lying, they'll take pieces of you

And they'll stand above you and walk away
That's right and take a part of you with them


2. SIXTEEN SALTINES

She's got stickers on her locker
And the boys' numbers there in magic marker
I'm hungry and the hunger will linger
I eat sixteen saltine crackers then I lick my fingers

Well, every morning I deliver the news
Black hat, white shoes, and I'm red all over
She's got a pink mailbox that she puts out front
Garbage in,
Garbage out,
She's getting what she wants

Who's jealous?
Who's jealous?
Who's jealous?
Who's jealous of who?
If I get busy then I couldn't care less what you do
But when I'm by myself I think of nothing else
Than if a boy just might be getting through and touching you

Spike heels make a hole in a life boat
Drifting away when I'm talking and laughing as we float
I hear her whistle, that's how I know she's home
Lipstick, eyelash, broke mirror, broken home

Force fed, forced meds till I drop dead
You can’t defeat her, when you meet her you’ll get what I said
The Lord knows there's a method to her madness
But the Lord's joke is a boat in a sea of sadness

She doesn't know but when she's gone I sit and drink her perfume
And I'm sure she's drinking too, but why, where and what for and who
And I'm solo rowing on one side of the boat.
Looking up, throwing up, a lifesaver down my throat

Who's jealous who's jealous who's jealous who's jealous of who?
Who's jealous who's jealous who's jealous who's jealous of who?
Who's jealous who's jealous who's jealous who's jealous of who?


3. FREEDOM AT 21

Cut off the bottoms of my feet
Make me walk on salt
Take me down to the police
Charge me with assault
A smile on her face
She does what she wants to me

That's right and
She don't care what kind of wounds she's inflicted on me
She don't care what color bruises that she's leaving on me
'Cause she's got freedom in the 21st century
Alright

Two black gadgets in her hands
All she thinks about
No responsibility no guilt or morals
Cloud of judgement
Smile on her face
She does what she damn well please

And she don't care about the things people used to do
She don't care that what she does has an effect on you
She's got freedom in the 21st century

Cut off the bottoms of my feet
Cut off the bottoms of my feet
Make me walk on salt
Make me walk on salt
Take me down to the police
Take me down to the police


4. LOVE INTERUPTION

I want love to: roll me over slowly
Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around
I want love to: grab my fingers gently
Slam them in a doorway
Put my face into the ground
I want love to: murder my own mother
Take her off to somewhere, like hell, or up above
And I want love to: change my friends to enemies
Change my friends to enemies, and show me how it's all my fault

And I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
Yeah I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me anymore

I want love to: walk right up and bite me
Grab a hold of me and fight me, leave me dying on the ground
I want love to: split my mouth wide open
And cover up my ears and never let me hear a sound
I want love to: forget that you offended me
Or how you have defended me when everybody talked me down
Yeah and I want love to: change my friends to enemies,
Change my friends to enemies, and show me how it's all my fault

Yeah I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
Yeah I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me anymore


5. BLUNDERBUSS

I had my dream
I held your hand
On that broad avenue
We crossed the road
And never spoke
To another as we flew
We left your man
Alone in drag
Laughing there at us
A romantic bust
A blunder turned
Explosive blunderbuss

An ancient grand hotel of Persian thread and ivory
And when your man would turn his head I’d see you look at me
Pools of brown and sea of red
And demons in your pocket
That same romance
Performed a dance
Inside your silver locket

A corner exit not tall enough
To walk out standing straight
Designed by men so ladies
Would have to lean back in their gate
You grabbed my arm and left with me
But you were not allowed to
You took me to a public place
To quietly blend into
Such a trick pretending not to be
Doing what you want to do
But seems like everybody does this
Every waking moment

I laid you down and touched you
Like the two of us both needed
Safe to say that others might not
Approve of this and pleaded
“So selfish them” would be their cry
And who’d be brave to argue
Doing what you people need
Is never on the menu


6. HYPOCRITICAL KISS

My temper got the best of me
And when I said that I mean
I know every single thing
That I said was true

And I know that you’re mad at me
But if you’re thinking like that
I think you’ll see that you’re
Mad at you too

And I know the feeling’s strong
Strong enough to forget about
All that I’ve been through

And it sounds obscene but
Loud words never bothered
Me like they do to you

You’re the boy
That talks but says nothing
A big game to the ones
That you think will believe you

But you don’t know how to read
The look on my face when it says:
“Yeah, I’ve read that book too”

And who the hell’s impressed by you
I want names of the people
That we know that are falling for this

You would sell your own mother out
And then betray your dead brother with another
Hypocritical kiss


7. WEEP THEMSELVES TO SLEEP

No one can blow the shows
Or throw the bones that break your nose like I can
But the men that fall so deep
In love they start to weep themselves to sleep can

And then he'll fight the world
And love the girl that tried to hold her hands behind them
They won't be left behind
By time or any rules that try to bind them

Nobody knows just how it goes
To show that the villain will play the victim
The kings can check the reigns
And deem the knives of brains that mean to kill them

And then he'll fight the world
And love the girl that tried to hold her hands behind them
They won't be left behind
By time or any rules that try to bind them

And then he'll fight the world
And love the girl that tried to hold her hands behind them
They won't be left behind
By time or any rules that try to bind them


8. I’M SHAKIN’

Yeah, when you touch my hand and talk sweet talk
I got a knockin' in my dizzard, a wobblin' in my walk
And I'm tremblin'
That's right, you got me shakin'

When you take me in your arms and talk romance
My heart starts doin' that Saint Rita dance
And I'm ventin'
Oh and I'm shakin'

Early in the morning time
Late in the middle of the night
Whenever this chill comes over me
I wanna hug you with all of my might
That's right and I'm sweatin'
Oh, yeah you got me shakin'
You got me sweatin'
Oh, yeah you got me shakin' girl

A chill and a fever, so I've been told
Make's your head spin around and your feet run cold
I got fever, yeah, fever

I feel like I've been run right through the mill
And I can't move around and I can't stand still
I'm Bo Diddley
Oh, you got me shakin'
I'm so jittery
That's right, you got me shakin'

Well Samson was a mighty good man
Strongest in his day
Then along came Delilah and clipped his wig
And it looks like you took me the same old way
So I'm nervous
Oh and I'm shakin'
Alright, you got me nervous
Yeah I'm shakin' and jumpin'

A storm rocks a ship on a sea
A storm rocks a ship on a sea
The wind shakes the leaves on a tree
The wind shakes the leaves on a tree
And I'm a nervous wreck and I'm all shook up
And that's what you're doin' to me right now
And I'm jumpin'
That's right, you got me shakin'
Oh and I'm jumpin'
That's right, you got me shakin'
Oh, you got me shakin'
That's right, you got me nervous
But now I'm shakin'
Oh, you got me shakin'


9. TRASH TONGUE TALKER

I got no truck with you, woman
Always coming over when I ain't home
You hand a buck to me baby
Tried your luck, you tried to get in my song
Oh well your mama was a bastard
Had your plastered face all over the scene
You got hassled by your daddy
Always pushing trying to make you come clean

You broke your tongue talking trash
Now you're trying to bring your garbage to me
I got some words for your ass
You better find somebody else up the street
Two monkeys jumping on the bed
And one fell off and hit his head on the ground
The other monkey called the doctor
Said another body dead on the ground

I got no truck with you, woman
Always coming over when I ain't home
You hand a buck to me baby
Tried your luck, you tried to get in my song
Oh well your mama was a bastard
Had your plastered face all over the scene
You got hassled by your daddy


10. HIP (EPONYMOUS) POOR BOY

Well I get into the game, but it's always the same
I'm the man with the name, Hip Eponymous Poor Boy, boy
Call me whatever you may, I ain't stopping the train
I got a pill for the pain, Hip Eponymous Poor Boy, boy

And I know that I can't defeat you
Yea, you don't worry now, I ain't going to preach to you
Well, there you go
But I'll be going right there with you
Yeah wherever you'll be, you'll be looking at me

But don't get out of your chair
Put a bow in your hair, you might be making them stare
So leave the care to the poor boy, the poor boy
And that's the name of the game
Keep on staying the same, ain't nobody to blame
Nobody but the poor boy, the poor boy

Well okay, so you feel asleep today
What's funny to me though is that you did that yesterday
You must think I'm mad
To do all the things that I don't need to do
But while you're laughing at me, well I'll be laughing at you

So I get into the game, but always keep it the same
And I'll be using your name, but they'll be yelling at me: "poor boy, poor boy"
But I'll be happy for you, cause you got nothing to do
And I'll be singing the blues, walking around, singing: "poor boy, poor boy"

Sometimes a cold shiver comes over me
And it turns me on when the song takes over me
But alright, I can't fight if the odds are against me
But I can't sit still
Because I know that I will

And you'll be watching me girl, taking over the world
Let the stripes unfurl, getting rich singing: "poor boy, poor boy"
And I'll be coming to play, I do it every day
And the title will stay: “hip eponymous poor boy, poor boy”


11. I GUESS I SHOULD GO TO SLEEP


I guess I should go to sleep
Too hard standing on my own two feet
Been walking too long on a dead end street
I guess I should go to sleep

I guess I'll take off my shoes
Head upstairs and then watch the news
That's another way to lose these walking blues
I guess I'll take off my shoes

Well upstairs, upstaged, and upset
Keeping quiet is probably my best bet yet
Cause I ain't managed to say the right thing yet
Well I guess I should go back to bed

Guess I should go to sleep
It's too hard standing on my own two feet
Been running too long on an endless street
Well I guess I should go to sleep
Sleep
Sleep
Sleep


12. ON AND ON AND ON

The sun and the moon never change
They just rearrange, but not in the new day
Gold exchanges for silver
And a light on the river gets carried away
Explain

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

I lift up my head and I wonder
Just who it is calling, calling my name now
I trip on my way and I blunder
My head hiding under a blanket of shame

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

High and low may I go
Where God only knows just where I am going
High and low may I go
But God only knows just where I am going

The people around me won't let me
Become what I need to, they want me the same
I look at myself and I want to
Just cover my eyes and give myself a new name
The stones in the sky never worry
They don't have to hurry, they move in their own way
But I have to choose what to do
How to act, what to think, how to talk, what to say

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on


13. TAKE ME WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO

Take me with you when you go, girl
Take me anywhere you go
I've got nothing here but me, babe
Take me with you when you go

I got a feeling my minds in the sky
And I can't catch a breath
Or a break like a guy who's strangling babe
For help, not attention
And then, not to mention, the dame that was mine
And I thought and I know
And that what's going on in my eyes
And my hands could be robbing without any knowledge
I know that helping yourself could be hurting or harming someone

Take me with you when you go, girl
Take me anywhere you go
I've got nothing here but me, babe
Take me with you when you go

I got a feeling my minds in the sky
And I can't catch a breath
Or a break like a guy who's strangling babe
For help, not attention
And then, not to mention, the dame that was mine
And I thought and I know
And that what's going on in my eyes
And my hands could be robbing without any knowledge
I know that helping yourself could be hurting or harming someone